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A Novel
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Alexandra Chang
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"Startlingly original and deeply moving.... Chang here establishes herself as one of the most important of the new generation of American writers." (George Saunders)
A Most Anticipated Book of the Year from Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, and The Millions
A wry, tender portrait of a young woman - finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely - from a captivating new literary voice
The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why - she doesn’t know yet. So begins a journey for the 24-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. And when her longtime boyfriend, J, decides to move to a quiet upstate New York town for grad school, she sees an excuse to cut and run.
Moving is supposed to be a grand gesture of her commitment to J and a way to reshape her sense of self. But in the process, she finds herself facing misgivings about her role in an interracial relationship. Captivated by the stories of her ancestors and other Asian Americans in history, she must confront a question at the core of her identity: What does it mean to exist in a society that does not notice or understand you?
Equal parts tender and humorous, and told in spare but powerful prose, Days of Distraction is an offbeat coming-of-adulthood tale, a touching family story, and a razor-sharp appraisal of our times.
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Annabelle McKay knows she shouldn’t have any complaints. She’s been in a stable marriage that’s lasted almost three decades and has provided her with two wonderful children and thousands of family dinners around a sturdy oak table. Other wives envy the fact that Grant is not the type of man who would ever cheat on her or leave her for a younger woman. The trouble is Annabelle isn’t sure she wants to be married to Grant anymore. The trouble is she’s still in love with someone else.
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Don’t pass this one up.
- De Lauren en 03-10-20
De: Maddie Dawson
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Paper Angels
- A Novel
- De: Jimmy Wayne, Travis Thrasher
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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When his mom decided it was time for them to leave for good, Thomas knew they better get far away or he'd come and find them. It was Christmas Day, with Mom sweating in a tiny room over a tiny stove, and Dad watching college basketball and drinking with a vengeance. "Thomas, I want you to get your sister and go out to the car, okay?" Mom had promised them that they would be getting a special Christmas present today. Just the two kids. They couldn’t mention it to Dad. This is her present, Thomas thought....
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Giving and FORGIVING . . . Great Christmas Story
- De Debbie en 11-25-14
De: Jimmy Wayne, y otros
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Small Admissions
- A Novel
- De: Amy Poeppel
- Narrado por: Carly Robins
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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Despite her innate ambition and summa cum laude smarts, Kate Pearson has turned into a major slacker. After being dumped by her handsome French "almost fiancé", she abandons her grad school plans and spends her days lolling on the couch, leaving her apartment only when a dog-walking gig demands it. Her friends don't know what to do other than pass tissues and hope for a comeback while her practical sister, Angela, pushes every remedy she can think of, from trapeze class to therapy to job interviews.
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For fans of "Where'd You Go, Bernadette ?"
- De RueRue en 01-16-17
De: Amy Poeppel
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Members Only
- De: Sameer Pandya
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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Raj Bhatt is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged, he lives mostly happily in California with a job at a university. Still, his white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times, especially at their tennis club, a place he's cautiously come to love. But it's there that, in one week, his life unravels. It begins at a meeting for potential new members: Raj thrills to find an African American couple on the list; he dreams of a more diverse club. But in an effort to connect, he makes a racist joke.
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Stick with it... so worth it!
- De Andrea R Martinez en 09-02-20
De: Sameer Pandya
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Picture Us in the Light
- De: Kelly Loy Gilbert
- Narrado por: James Chen
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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When Danny discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined. Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember, and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of. Still, contemplating a future without his best friend, Harry Wong, by his side makes Danny feel a panic he can barely put into words.
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A poignant, touching novel for the Asian American millennial
- De Jenny en 06-30-23
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Red's Hot Honky-Tonk Bar
- De: Pamela Morsi
- Narrado por: Savannah Richards
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Unruly Red knows she’s no one’s idea of a sweet old granny. But with one long-distance phone call, the fortysomething bar owner with the tattoos and tight jeans is suddenly responsible for two young grandchildren she hardly knows.
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What a surprise
- De Donna en 02-07-18
De: Pamela Morsi
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The Last Post
- De: Renée Carlino
- Narrado por: Avery Caris, Stephen Dexter
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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Laya Marston’s husband, Cameron, a daredevil enthusiast, was the complete opposite of her, ready and willing to dive off a cliff-face or parachute across a canyon - and Laya loved him for it. But she was different: pragmatic, regimented, devoted to her career and to supporting Cameron from the sidelines of his death-defying feats. Opposites attract, right? But when Cameron dies tragically, Laya becomes lost in denial, living in the delusion that Cameron will come back to her.
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I really wanted to like this
- De Amazon Customer en 12-21-21
De: Renée Carlino
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Domestic Violets
- A Novel
- De: Matthew Norman
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 11 h
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Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned 35, he’d have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day. The reality, though, is far different. He’s got a wife, but their problems are bigger than he can even imagine. And he’s written a novel, but the manuscript he’s slaved over for years is currently hidden in his desk drawer while his father, an actual famous writer, just won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His career, such that it is, involves mind-numbing corporate buzzwords....
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What a rollicking ride!
- De Pamela Harvey en 08-13-11
De: Matthew Norman
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Reprieve
- A Novel
- De: James Han Mattson
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, “reprieve,” they’ll win a substantial cash prize - a startling feat accomplished only by one other group in the house’s long history. But before they can complete the challenge, a man breaks into the cell and kills one of the contestants.
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creepy escape room story
- De Barbara S en 11-18-21
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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Vera
- De: Carol Edgarian
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Meet Vera Johnson, 15-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco’s most legendary bordello. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds - the madam’s alluring sphere, replete with tickets to the opera, surly henchmen, and scant morality, and the quiet domestic life of the family paid to raise her.
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The Phoenix here is more than San Francisco
- De Carol C en 04-16-21
De: Carol Edgarian
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The Eternal Audience of One
- De: Rémy Ngamije
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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One might as well start with Séraphin: playlist-maker, nerd-jock hybrid, self-appointed merchant of cool, Rwandan, stifled and living in Namibia. Soon he will leave the confines of his family life for the cosmopolitan city of Cape Town, where loyal friends, hormone-saturated parties, adventurous conquests, and race controversies await. More than that, his long-awaited final year in law school promises to deliver a crucial puzzle piece of the Great Plan immigrant: a degree from a prestigious university.
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Enjoyable Listen!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-06-25
De: Rémy Ngamije
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Everything's Fine
- De: Cecilia Rabess
- Narrado por: Denée Benton
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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Jess is a senior in college, ambitious but aimless, when she meets Josh. He’s a privileged preppy in chinos, ready to inherit the world. She’s not expecting to inherit anything. A year later, they’re both working at the same investment bank. And when Jess finds herself the sole Black woman on the floor, overlooked and underestimated, Josh shows up for her in surprising—if imperfect—ways. Before long, an unlikely friendship forms, tinged with undeniable chemistry. It gradually, and then suddenly, turns into an electrifying romance that shocks them both.
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strange story about unhealthy young people
- De EM en 07-03-23
De: Cecilia Rabess
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The Eight Mountains
- A Novel
- De: Paolo Cognetti
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
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Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family shares is their love for the mountains that surround Italy. While on vacation at the foot of the Aosta Valley, Pietro meets Bruno, an adventurous, spirited local boy. Together they spend many summers exploring the mountains’ meadows and peaks and discover the similarities and differences in their lives, their backgrounds, and their futures. The two boys come to find the true meaning of friendship and camaraderie, even as their divergent paths in life.
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Achingly beautiful book about the mountains, families, and friendship
- De Lavarm en 03-26-18
De: Paolo Cognetti
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Love Marriage
- A Novel
- De: Monica Ali
- Narrado por: Ayesha Dharker
- Duración: 15 h y 51 m
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Yasmin Ghorami is 26, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father), and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother, Harriet, is a famous feminist. The gulf between families is vast. So, too, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. As the wedding day draws near, misunderstandings, infidelities, and long-held secrets upend both Yasmin’s relationship and that of her parents, a “love marriage”, according to the family lore that Yasmin has believed all her life.
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I loved everything about this book!
- De I used to fly en 05-21-22
De: Monica Ali
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Before You Go
- A Novel
- De: Tommy Butler
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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In the Before, humankind is created with a hole in its heart, the designers not realizing their mistake—if it was a mistake—until too late. Elliot Chance is just a boy, and knows nothing of this. All he knows is that he doesn’t feel at home in this world, and his desire for escape becomes more urgent as he grows into adulthood, where the turbulence of life seems to offer no cure for the emptiness. Desperate and lost, he stumbles upon a support group on the edge of Manhattan. There he meets two other drifting souls and launches into the business of life, determined to be happy.
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A simple ode to life
- De Griffin en 09-05-21
De: Tommy Butler
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Vera
- De: Carol Edgarian
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Meet Vera Johnson, 15-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco’s most legendary bordello. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds - the madam’s alluring sphere, replete with tickets to the opera, surly henchmen, and scant morality, and the quiet domestic life of the family paid to raise her.
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The Phoenix here is more than San Francisco
- De Carol C en 04-16-21
De: Carol Edgarian
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The Eternal Audience of One
- De: Rémy Ngamije
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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One might as well start with Séraphin: playlist-maker, nerd-jock hybrid, self-appointed merchant of cool, Rwandan, stifled and living in Namibia. Soon he will leave the confines of his family life for the cosmopolitan city of Cape Town, where loyal friends, hormone-saturated parties, adventurous conquests, and race controversies await. More than that, his long-awaited final year in law school promises to deliver a crucial puzzle piece of the Great Plan immigrant: a degree from a prestigious university.
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Enjoyable Listen!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-06-25
De: Rémy Ngamije
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Everything's Fine
- De: Cecilia Rabess
- Narrado por: Denée Benton
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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Jess is a senior in college, ambitious but aimless, when she meets Josh. He’s a privileged preppy in chinos, ready to inherit the world. She’s not expecting to inherit anything. A year later, they’re both working at the same investment bank. And when Jess finds herself the sole Black woman on the floor, overlooked and underestimated, Josh shows up for her in surprising—if imperfect—ways. Before long, an unlikely friendship forms, tinged with undeniable chemistry. It gradually, and then suddenly, turns into an electrifying romance that shocks them both.
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strange story about unhealthy young people
- De EM en 07-03-23
De: Cecilia Rabess
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The Eight Mountains
- A Novel
- De: Paolo Cognetti
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family shares is their love for the mountains that surround Italy. While on vacation at the foot of the Aosta Valley, Pietro meets Bruno, an adventurous, spirited local boy. Together they spend many summers exploring the mountains’ meadows and peaks and discover the similarities and differences in their lives, their backgrounds, and their futures. The two boys come to find the true meaning of friendship and camaraderie, even as their divergent paths in life.
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Achingly beautiful book about the mountains, families, and friendship
- De Lavarm en 03-26-18
De: Paolo Cognetti
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Love Marriage
- A Novel
- De: Monica Ali
- Narrado por: Ayesha Dharker
- Duración: 15 h y 51 m
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Yasmin Ghorami is 26, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father), and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother, Harriet, is a famous feminist. The gulf between families is vast. So, too, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. As the wedding day draws near, misunderstandings, infidelities, and long-held secrets upend both Yasmin’s relationship and that of her parents, a “love marriage”, according to the family lore that Yasmin has believed all her life.
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I loved everything about this book!
- De I used to fly en 05-21-22
De: Monica Ali
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Before You Go
- A Novel
- De: Tommy Butler
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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In the Before, humankind is created with a hole in its heart, the designers not realizing their mistake—if it was a mistake—until too late. Elliot Chance is just a boy, and knows nothing of this. All he knows is that he doesn’t feel at home in this world, and his desire for escape becomes more urgent as he grows into adulthood, where the turbulence of life seems to offer no cure for the emptiness. Desperate and lost, he stumbles upon a support group on the edge of Manhattan. There he meets two other drifting souls and launches into the business of life, determined to be happy.
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A simple ode to life
- De Griffin en 09-05-21
De: Tommy Butler
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Thin Girls
- A Novel
- De: Diana Clarke
- Narrado por: Jayme Mattler
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; they feel each other’s emotions, taste what the other is feeling. Like most young women, they’ve struggled with their bodies and food since childhood, and high school finds them turning to food - or not - to battle the waves of insecurity and the yearning for popularity. But their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive, a yin to yang. When Rose stops eating, Lily starts - consuming everything Rose won’t or can’t.
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nothing special
- De Drine en 10-11-20
De: Diana Clarke
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The Trial of the Century
- De: Gregg Jarrett, Don Yaeger - contributor
- Narrado por: Gregg Jarrett
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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Nearly a century ago, famed liberal attorney Clarence Darrow defended schoolteacher John Scopes in a blockbuster legal proceeding that brought the attention of the entire country to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee. Darrow’s seminal defense of freedom of speech helped form the legal bedrock on which our civil liberties depend today. Expertly researched, “colorful, and dramatic” (Publishers Weekly), The Trial of the Century calls upon our past to unite Americans in the defense of the free exchange of ideas, especially in this divided time.
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Well written and well narrated
- De GERRARD-GOUGH en 02-05-25
De: Gregg Jarrett, y otros
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Disorientation
- A Novel
- De: Elaine Hsieh Chou
- Narrado por: Jennifer Kim
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about “Chinese-y” things again. But after years of grueling research, all she has to show for her efforts are a junk food addiction and stomach pain. When she accidentally stumbles upon a curious note in the Chou archives one afternoon, it looks like her ticket out of academic hell.
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Exceptional
- De Zach Chitwood en 05-12-22
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Token
- De: Beverley Kendall
- Narrado por: Jeanette Illidge
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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Two years ago, Kennedy Mitchell was plucked from the reception desk and placed in the corporate boardroom in the name of diversity. Rather than play along, she and her best friend founded Token, a boutique PR agency that helps “diversity-challenged” companies and celebrities. With corporate America diversifying workplaces and famous people getting into reputation-damaging controversies, Token is in high demand.
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The title misleading,The story disappointing
- De Amazon Customer en 05-27-24
De: Beverley Kendall
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The Angel of Rome
- And Other Stories
- De: Jess Walter
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Julia Whelan
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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We all live like we’re famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation.
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Great writing and narration
- De Robyn en 09-30-22
De: Jess Walter
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In Every Life
- A Novel
- De: Rea Frey
- Narrado por: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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Harper is living a life she never expected. After a failed attempt at making it as an artist in New York while falling for and losing her first love, her dreams crumbled in the span of a week. A decade later, Harper is happily living a simpler life as an art teacher in Chattanooga with her beloved new husband, Ben. When Ben is diagnosed with late-stage cancer, their whole world shifts. Despite the bad news, Ben comes up with one final wish for his wife: he wants Harper to find a new partner before he dies.
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Remarkable read!
- De Skyfire123456 en 11-19-24
De: Rea Frey
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The Mythmakers
- De: Keziah Weir
- Narrado por: Brefny Caribou
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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Sal Cannon’s life is in shambles. Her relationship is crumbling, and her career in journalism hits a low point after it’s revealed that her profile of a playwright is full of inaccuracies. She’s close to rock-bottom when she reads a short story by Martin Keller: a much older author she met at a literary event years ago. Much to her shock, the story is about her and the moment they met. When Sal learns the story is excerpted from his unpublished novel, she reaches out to the story’s editor—only to learn that Martin is deceased.
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Meandering brilliance
- De christina hughes babb en 02-08-24
De: Keziah Weir
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The Lost Jewels
- A Novel
- De: Kirsty Manning
- Narrado por: Natasha Beaumont
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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Present day. When respected American jewelry historian Kate Kirby receives a call about the Cheapside jewels, she knows she’s on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. But the trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets that have long been buried by her own family.
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Need sleep?
- De Bird Miller en 05-10-21
De: Kirsty Manning
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Stolen
- De: Ann-Helén Laestadius
- Narrado por: Jade Wheeler
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsa—daughter of Sámi reindeer herders—sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these “stolen” animals. Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile up, uninvestigated. But reindeer are not just the Sámi’s livelihood, they also hold spiritual significance; attacking a reindeer is an attack on the culture itself.
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The marketing for this book is misleading
- De Winsome en 09-03-23
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Begin Again
- A Novel
- De: Helly Acton
- Narrado por: Emma Sidi
- Duración: 10 h
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Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can’t help feeling something’s missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more rewarding job? A relationship? Before she can work it out, she dies in a freak kebab-related accident after what she sees as yet another dud of a first date. But life isn’t over for Frankie. Instead, she is miraculously offered a second chance: Frankie can revisit key moments from her past to see if different choices will lead her to the fulfilling life she’s always dreamt of.
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not a good read. I did not like the book
- De Anonymous User en 12-01-24
De: Helly Acton
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The Lowering Days
- A Novel
- De: Gregory Brown
- Narrado por: Nicole Altvater, David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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A promising literary star makes his debut with this emotionally powerful saga, set in 1980s Maine, that explores family love, the power of myths and storytelling, survival and environmental exploitation, and the ties between cultural identity and the land we live on.
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Didn’t care
- De RueRue en 03-02-25
De: Gregory Brown
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The Real Mrs. Tobias
- A Novel
- De: Sally Koslow
- Narrado por: Kendra Hoffman, Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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It’s 2015 in New York City, and three women all known as Mrs. Tobias—Veronika, the matriarch, her daughter-in-law Mel, and Mel’s daughter-in-law Birdie—are trying to navigate personal difficulties, some of which are with one another. Veronika and Mel, despite having little in common, are both psychotherapists who are more skilled at helping other people than solving their own problems. Birdie, still dealing with the culture shock of moving to New York City and marrying into the Tobias clan, is pushed to her limit when her husband gets into trouble.
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Great but need a reader who can pronounce the Hebrew.
- De Beth en 05-01-24
De: Sally Koslow
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Days of Distraction
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- 05-17-20
Ambivalent
Struggled to get through this book. Felt the author jumpedfrom topic to topic without segues. Didn't like the protagonist and how she interacted with her boyfriend or her father.
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- 04-12-23
The history is interesting.
Some of the history is interesting but the main character seemed lazy and complaining most of the time which was tiresome to me.
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- Bailey
- 10-25-21
Loved this book
I liked the way the author intertwines Chinese American stories of the past and present with her own family life. I also loved how much her boyfriend, who is not Chinese but is revered by her family, and her own nuclear family meant to her despite at times having family members who do not communicate with each other.
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- 01-23-21
Not a fan of the narrator
“Days Of Distraction” by Alexandra Chang has garnered much publicity and recommendations, and deservingly so. It’s billed as a “coming-of-adulthood” story which is indeed part of it. It’s a story of a woman in her early twenties following her beloved from San Francisco to Ithaca NY. But she’s not blindly following him, she questions her relationship with him and how following him could affect her career. She’s not happy in her current job and looks forward to making a change. Yet is this right for her?’
What I enjoyed was her quiet contemplations. She includes historical tidbits, generally about race and interactional relationships. I listened to the Audible production, read by Greta Jung. I was not a fan of Jung’s performance. To me, she was wooden and far from dramatic. I wish I would have read the story because I’m a visual learner, and there is so much information and insights piled in this novel that I wanted to see the words written. I needed to rewind the narrative many times.
This is an engaging story of a young woman growing into adulthood, and not blindly. Yes, she’s confused; yes, she’s searching. I enjoyed her emotional and intellectual deliberations. I suggest reading this one.
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